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by cavemandaveman 16 days ago
My understanding is that the Inuit snow claim is a bit of a myth. Beyond English words like slush, sleet, powder, hardpack, flurry, blizzard, etc you can also say "fluffy snow", "wet snow", etc. The Inuit language is just smooshing the adjective so you get something like "wetsnow" as one word.